Community Development in Pre-Independence Zimbabwe

Abstract

AIMS OF THE STUDY. Community Development Policy was officially adopted in Rhodesia in May 1962. From this date, until after its climax in f970, it was one of the major rural planning policy instruments in the African Tribal Trust Lands. Prior to its formal adoption by the Rhodesian government, Community Development had been the object of much theoretical and practical study by the United Nations and by the British Colonial Office. Its implementation in many British colonies and former colonial territories was also assisted by the United States’ Agency for International Development. This study is a review involving assessment or evaluation of the adoption and implementation of Community Development in Rhodesia.